The Garden of Eros

The Garden of Eros
Title The Garden of Eros PDF eBook
Author Oscar Wilde
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 26
Release 2014-12-25
Genre
ISBN 9781505754827

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art," and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The charge carried a penalty of up to two years in prison. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In 1897, in prison, he wrote De Profundis, which was published in 1905, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of 46.

The Garden of Eros

The Garden of Eros
Title The Garden of Eros PDF eBook
Author Dorothy Bryant
Publisher
Pages 180
Release 1979
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Eros the Bittersweet

Eros the Bittersweet
Title Eros the Bittersweet PDF eBook
Author Anne Carson
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
Pages 118
Release 2023-11-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1628974117

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.

The Garden of Eros

The Garden of Eros
Title The Garden of Eros PDF eBook
Author John Calder
Publisher Calder Publications Limited
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Aliens
ISBN 9780957452206

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Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
Title Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde PDF eBook
Author Oscar Wilde
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 63
Release 2022-09-15
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde" by Oscar Wilde. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Eros, Eros, Eros

Eros, Eros, Eros
Title Eros, Eros, Eros PDF eBook
Author Odysseas Elytēs
Publisher
Pages 202
Release 1998
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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Olga Broumas has chosen poems from the full range of Odysseas Elytis's Nobel Prize-winning poetry, including his early work when he was associated with the Surrealists, to the entirety of his long poem The Little Mariner, as well as a previously unavailable selection of his last poems, written shortly before his death in 1996. Elytis himself offers the best description of his work: If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
Title The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You PDF eBook
Author Dorothy Bryant
Publisher Random House
Pages 229
Release 2010-12-08
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307755401

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A major backlist sleeper! 130,000 sold-to-date! A feminist sci-fi novel. The kin of Ata live only for "the dream". Into their midst comes a desperate man who is first subdued and then led on a spiritual journey that, sooner or later, all of us make.